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– After 3-day excessive drinking spree, starting on March 15, in central Kon Tum
Province, four men died
on March 18-19. The fifth passed away on March 21.

On March 15, after receiving his
salary, Dinh Van Run, an official of Ngoc Tem commune, Kon Plong district,
brought some alcohol to the house of a man named Aran and invited some others
to join. They started drinking at 8 am.

Joining them were villagers from
Village 7 in Ngoc Tem commune. Some left the spree after several hours. Only
four men – A Ran, A Tin, A Lay and Run – stayed together to drink for three
consecutive days.

Four of them had stomach ache
before they died on March 18 (A Ran and A Tin) and March 19 (A Lay and Run).

The fifth man was A Ram, 46, who
only drank three glasses of alcohol before leaving the spree. On March 21,
after attending the funeral of the four dead men at noon, A Ram felt tired and
went to the bed and passed away at 5 pm the same day for unknown reasons.

Local authorities collected
samples to send to central agencies for testing to find out the reason of the
death of five people.

The man’s death may not be an immediate consequence of the
excessive drinking but is possibly due to his chronic diseases and eating too much
beef at the same time, doctor Le Tri Khai, deputy director of the Kon Tom
Department of Health, said.

It is suspected that these men ingested fake wine, which is
made of industrial alcohol with water.

PV